Julius was beside Bujac when he heard the Sith's order.
He saw the former Jedi make a funny gesture, then throw something over his head. A thin orange cord sprang from his hand and quickly grew long.
"A laser whip" he thought. "I never imagined it existed"
Bujac spun the whip around the group. The movement was so fast that the three teraplites hesitated for a moment.
"Shoot through!" he shouted. "Aim for the legs first!"
They fired all their weapons.
The whip and fire kept the lightsabers at bay, but every now and then a lightning attack forced them to dodge. Blom felt Yegor's pressure behind him. He saw out of the corner of his eye Yil pop up between his legs and shoot the thing in front of him. A knee exploded and he took the opportunity to hit the bull's eye.
"You see, Yil, when you want!"
He heard a scream behind him. Julius, Yegor... Bujac maybe? There's no way of knowing.
The teraplite walked slowly, dragging the limp limbs of its two dead twins. He held his prey by the collar and firmly squeezed the withers of tissue.
Jay moved weakly and brought his hand to her mouth as if she was going to cough.
The Sith smiles. The colossus was only twenty meters away, everything would soon be consumed. Jay kept his hand in front of his mask.
"Come on, my light, my chosen one..."
He suddenly saw Jay's arm unfold, whip in front of the giant's face, come back, and sweep again and again...
The teraplite let go of Jay and fell to his knees, his two still valid hands clutching his neck.
Jay stood up, his left hand covered in blood clutching the scalpel blade she had stolen from the hospital. The commandments she had received during her classes were still ringing in her head.
"Be ample, finish your movements and strike through your opponent..."
Bujac saw the Sith rushing forward.
"No !" he shouted, throwing his whip forward.
The sith paid no attention, he was too far to reach.
The wick of light was almost at the end of its stroke when it suddenly extended with an orange stinger that cut the Sith's right leg in the middle of his calf.
He fell to the ground screaming.
But the defrocked Jedi had stepped forward too far and opened his circle of defense. A lightsaber sliced through his right forearm, turning off the laser whip in the process. A second jab followed, piercing his left flank.
Bujac rolled to the ground, dodging a third attack at the last minute.
The colossus who had wounded him raised his lightsaber to finish him off, his other weapon deflecting fire from the group trying to protect its downed leader.
The blade of light shone in the night sky. Then it went out.
Bujac did not understand immediately. The giant fell at his feet, unmasking Shi in the doorframe of the shuttle, a DC15 to his shoulder.
"Well done, the pilot" thought Julius, who had just shot down the last Siamese of the giant in front of him.
The last surviving teraflite flew between them. Only one of his Siamese had been killed by Blom. Bujac shouted:
"Cease fire!"
Jay was walking straight to the sith ashore.
He watched her advance without apparent fear. His light saber had rolled far ahead of him, and he was completely unarmed. She still squeezed her blade between her thumb and forefinger.
Jay then saw the teraflite running towards his master. She was about to rush to finish him off when she heard Bujac scream:
"Major! Leave him alone!"
The giant arrived, grabbed the sith in flight and disappeared by jumping into the ditch.
Jay then noticed the light saber that the Sith had dropped. She picked it up.
Caught in the act of war, she thought.
"Bit of Loot" she said to herself.
She joined the group.
Yegor was down, Shi and Julius around him. Yil and Blom took care of Bujac.
Julius stood up and said:
"For Yegor, it's over. He took a sword to the head"
She approached Bujac and crouched down in front of him. She saw in amazement that his severed arm was actually a prosthesis.
"Had you ever lost that arm before?"
"Yes major. A long time ago"
"Why did you yell at me to stop?"
"You had no chance. You would have been killed if you had attacked him"
She fell silent and saw the body of the teraplite lying next to the ex Jedi, eyes wide open.
"Do they have feelings?"
"Of course they do, Major. They are men in our image"
She leaned over his face and closed his eyes.
A pulsing noise made them look up. Two attack carriers approached, low in the night sky.
"It's fucked up" said Julius. "We wasted too much time"
"Yes" Shi replied. "The frigate must be warned now"
"It's also starting to stir around the hangars, too" Blom added.
Bujac then spoke:
"Leave now, Jay. Follow the plan"
"Run away? Give up? That would be great cowardice!"
Blom mingled with the conversation.
"Do as we do, Major, obey"
"And thank you for the help against these... things. We couldn't have done it without you" Yil added.
The renegade Jedi then ordered:
"Shot the lights! They must not see anything for ten minutes"
The blasters rose and the bulbs started popping all around them. Bujac then said to Jay in the reborn darkness:
"And don't worry about us. The Reps will want to know what happened"
She turned and ran back to her gun post. She went down into the ditch to retrieve her rifle, and saw the two lightsabers that the Teraplite had dropped in its successive deaths. She picked them up.
"That makes three now... I'm going to start a collection" she thought.
The sleeves were much more sober than the Sith's. Tools, not symbols.
She also retrieved her new charger.
"This is the last one. This better be good"
Still in the gut, she walked along the fence. Every once in a while, she'd see a print that Bujac had left on his recon. It reassured her. She arrived in the hangar area, which was brightly lit.
"Damn" she thought, "he got the easier part"
She stood at the edge of the trench and carefully glanced at the ground level. She saw the shadow of a sentry throwing itself against the wall. She waited for the last moment and then slowly lowered herself.
The sentry passed within twenty meters of her and then moved away. She let him go and took a look at the sheds. No yellow doors.
"It must be the next one"
She started walking again in the trench, and arrived at the second prefabricated building following the sentry a hundred meters ahead of her. She looked up at the level of the trench and looked at the doors. Still no yellow gate.
"On the way to the third shed" she thought to herself.
When she got in front, she looked first at the sentry ahead of her turn right a block further, then turned to realize that another soldier had appeared at the corner of the first hangar.
"I'm going to have to let him pass. I'm wasting time on this little game..."
She really wanted to kill him without further ado, but only barely managed to control herself.
She thought: "If I shoot him down, his absence will inevitably be detected at the next rotation and the alarm will be given. I would never have time to take a vessel"
She tried to relax.
"Can't wait to finish this, she told herself. Watch out, this is how we do bullshit ..."
The guard moved away from her, following exactly the trail of their predecessor.
"Disciplined guys. Not a step more or less..." she remarked. That made her smile and calmed her down a bit.
She observed the hangar. There was a yellow door right in the middle.
"At last! I was beginning to think I'd invented the damn exit!"
She jumped out of the ditch and ran along the metal wall to the metal door frame. The lock had indeed been forced, she saw it by the slight deformation of the handle. She turned it and gently pushed the door.
The access was in the middle of a corridor. She turned her head to the left and saw a glass door. She guessed from the noise coming from it that it was the access to the ships. To the right the door was open and she saw benches and lockers for clothes.
"The cloakroom! Luck begins to turn!"
Jay walked into the hall and closed the door quietly. His sniper rifle was a nuisance in this confined space. She tried to point it in front of her, but realized immediately that she was very vulnerable in a hand-to-hand struggle.
"I should have asked for a single blaster" she told herself. "I don't have an effective weapon for close combat"
"But in fact…"
She took the Sith's lightsaber out of her jacket and tried to light it in vain.
"Protected this thing... there must be a bio-reading in the handle..."
She put it back in her jacket and pulled one out of the teraplite. She pressed a discreet button and the red sword instantly appeared in a slight hissing.
She smiles. Rusticity is sometimes good...
She put her gun to her shoulder and walked to the locker room.